Malte Elson
@malte.the100.ci
Professor at Uni Bern
Meta Science ⸾ Research Methods ⸾ IT Security & Privacy ⸾ Technology Effects
https://the100.ci & @error.reviews
Meta Science ⸾ Research Methods ⸾ IT Security & Privacy ⸾ Technology Effects
https://the100.ci & @error.reviews
It does create awkward situations like this:
February 14, 2026 at 9:21 AM
It does create awkward situations like this:
My wife when I catch her in our bedroom with another man
February 3, 2026 at 4:11 PM
My wife when I catch her in our bedroom with another man
At low base rates, specificity works in extremely counterintuitive ways, as shown below. Generally, we think ML is going to help a lot with spotting paper mills and Scancar et al's classifier seems to work very well!
BMJ Comment: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications...
BMJ Comment: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications...
February 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
At low base rates, specificity works in extremely counterintuitive ways, as shown below. Generally, we think ML is going to help a lot with spotting paper mills and Scancar et al's classifier seems to work very well!
BMJ Comment: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications...
BMJ Comment: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
PubPeer: pubpeer.com/publications...
Fortunately, Conflict of Interest begins at $200,001
January 28, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Fortunately, Conflict of Interest begins at $200,001
We looked at 100 IGT studies and found abysmal reporting standards, and 244 different scoring techniques. Applied to a new dataset, the average correlation between these 244 techniques was 0. 5/15 IGT meta-analyses we looked at did not account for this hetereogenity.
January 26, 2026 at 8:28 AM
We looked at 100 IGT studies and found abysmal reporting standards, and 244 different scoring techniques. Applied to a new dataset, the average correlation between these 244 techniques was 0. 5/15 IGT meta-analyses we looked at did not account for this hetereogenity.
About the Go/No-Go task....
January 25, 2026 at 12:39 PM
About the Go/No-Go task....
Some day, OSF's integration into my workflows as the go-to repository for research data will be seamless.
But not today.
But not today.
January 16, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Some day, OSF's integration into my workflows as the go-to repository for research data will be seamless.
But not today.
But not today.
While we are unable to offer publication in Nature Aging, we believe your manuscript may be suitable for our Gold Open Access sister journal.
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
While we are unable to offer publication in Nature Aging, we believe your manuscript may be suitable for our Gold Open Access sister journal.
But then, why skip everything after the "might" step and go straight to asking for more funding for social psych? Clearly there never was any curiosity in learning whether LLMs can do this.
December 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
But then, why skip everything after the "might" step and go straight to asking for more funding for social psych? Clearly there never was any curiosity in learning whether LLMs can do this.
I think you just discovered a meme
December 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think you just discovered a meme
Our plot from the alpha hacking paper. Seems like an analog case perhaps (plotting expected distribution vs observed data)?
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Our plot from the alpha hacking paper. Seems like an analog case perhaps (plotting expected distribution vs observed data)?
Hey @cos.io is there a reason you're hiding the login at the bottom of the menu rather than just slapping it somewhere prominently on the front page?
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Hey @cos.io is there a reason you're hiding the login at the bottom of the menu rather than just slapping it somewhere prominently on the front page?
First draft for the intro to this series
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
First draft for the intro to this series
Important meme update!
October 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Important meme update!
Cake club time! Today we're reading McNeish, "How Do Psychologists Determine Whether a Measurement Scale Is Good?" With a side of Sacher cake and lemon meringue cake www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
October 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Cake club time! Today we're reading McNeish, "How Do Psychologists Determine Whether a Measurement Scale Is Good?" With a side of Sacher cake and lemon meringue cake www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
